replying on 38 Lines by auscot
3 Jan 2005, 5:19 PM
Wow, isn't it fun when you strike a raw nerve.
I see my poetry as a recreational pursuit with no restrictions. I do it purely for enjoyment not kudos, It is gratifying when it is liked and enjoyed. Like my sculpture, I create for me, no other. I just happened to have a sheet with 38 lines and I filled it. It gave you no satisfaction, but I enjoyed doing it and that is what counts. Let's face it, in posting on this site we are playing minor league, very few posts would cut the mustard in the world of poetry publishing. It's the enjoyment that matters, at least for me.
on Storms by Jeremi B. Handrinos
29 Dec 2004, 9:45 PM
You are a poet and I like your style, it says something and says it well.
on Math Poem 2 by Dovina
28 Dec 2004, 8:52 PM
This poem is disingenuous, is it some sort of avant garde
form of writing to scare off readers and give poetry a bad name? Please, let's make poetry readable and enjoyable.
form of writing to scare off readers and give poetry a bad name? Please, let's make poetry readable and enjoyable.
replying on Twin Forks by auscot
22 Dec 2004, 4:57 PM
Made my day, but a literary masterpiece?
replying on Twin Forks by auscot
22 Dec 2004, 4:55 PM
Thanks, can't get better than 10.
replying on Twin Forks by auscot
22 Dec 2004, 4:54 PM
Thanks brother, I lived in Africa for a few years amongst beautiful people.
replying on Twin Forks by auscot
22 Dec 2004, 4:50 PM
Thanks Dovina, a great score. Punctuation has always been my weakness, I tend to grap a pinch, scatter it and hope it lands in the right place. Re 'No longer..., it seemed ok at the time. Thanks for the crit.
I can't speak for a car mechanic or a truck driver, but I see no reason for them not to be able to write poetry. It could be a way of escaping what,to some, seems a humdrum existence. I can tell you that I didn't start writing until after I took up sculpture some nine years ago. I believe the creativity of sculpting released in me a need to explore creativity in a different form, poetry. My very first poem was about my father who died at the age of 49 years with a miner's lung disease. It proved to me that poetry is very much about emotion. No matter what we do for a living there is a poem deep within, knowing how to release it is the problem for most people.
on Andrew part II by Spindle
22 Dec 2004, 2:22 AM
Move on, you lost your virginity. The world is full of predators who take what they want or are offered it on a plate. It taught you a lesson, it's called the getting of wisdom. Let your next poem be a happy one,it lies within you, let it free.
on Joanna by DR Limerick
22 Dec 2004, 2:08 AM
There was a young girl called Joanna
with a face shaped like a banana.
Her boyfriend said so,
I want you to know,
she's bent and comes from Havana.
with a face shaped like a banana.
Her boyfriend said so,
I want you to know,
she's bent and comes from Havana.
replying on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams
21 Dec 2004, 3:09 PM
Sorry, thought you were using it as an adjective.
replying on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams
21 Dec 2004, 2:37 AM
Yes.
on Decline and Fall by auscot
20 Dec 2004, 6:50 PM
Dovina, I was unaware I had deleted comments on Decline and Fall, must have been the devil in me. Re The Drop I prefer my ending its the only time I get a commended.
on This God of mine by Bobjim
20 Dec 2004, 6:34 PM
I'm not into borrowing Gods. I worship the great outdoors and this wonderful world, which evolved over time for us to live in and enjoy.
on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams
20 Dec 2004, 6:21 PM
I will never take to free verse, must be my age, give me a good old fashioned rhyming poem any day. Yet, never too late, must try. One thing I would like to see, a 'tumulous' ocean with an 'o'.
on Decline and Fall by auscot
20 Dec 2004, 5:52 PM
Thanks Dovina with the mystic name, I admire your lack of cynicism, but regret that Decline and Fall failed to register as a metaphor for the corrupt and corruption all around us. For Zoo Keepers read politicians.